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The misfires in a great director’s career tell us as much about our love for that director’s work as the acknowledged masterworks do.

On Monday at the Music Box, presented by the Chicago Film Society, Vincente Minnelli’s “Two Weeks in Another Town” (1962) gets a rare 35mm screening in all its dissipated, soul-sick Metrocolor anti-splendor. Based loosely on an Irwin Shaw novel, the project is a late-career product of a rapidly crumbling Hollywood studio system. It’s also a touching, uncertain attempt by...

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